This familiar person was none other than the Fourth Prince Yi Jingyang, whom he had just met not long ago.

Yi Jingyang was scolded by his second brother Yi Jingshi for failing to get married. With one million taels in his pocket, he was ready to find an opportunity to see if he could please the unruly girl Xiu Luoran.

It happened that a frontier official from the northern province came to Beijing. Yi Jingshi was too busy to summon him, so he sent Yi Jingyang to receive him.

As men, there are only a few ways to entertain yourself.

Yi Jingyang brought the person to the gambling house.

He didn't expect that he would meet the person he least wanted to see when he came here.

He sighed inwardly, what bad luck.

Yi Jingyang didn't say anything, so Xiu Luoran naturally wouldn't rush to talk to him.

Mr. Tao's brother-in-law You Kecun works in the Ministry of War. He was temporarily brought in by Yi Jingyang to receive Lord He from the Northern Province.

When You Kecun heard his brother-in-law calling him, he looked down and saw his brother-in-law lying on the ground. He felt very ashamed.

He widened his eyes and angrily called out to Master Tao to get up quickly.

Unfortunately, Master Tao was afraid that Xiu Luoran would run away, so he kept staring at Xiu Luoran and didn't see his brother-in-law's expression.

"Brother-in-law, that's her."

His brother-in-law ignored him, and You Kecun felt a little embarrassed, especially in front of Yi Jingyang and Lord He.

You Kecun nodded apologetically to Yi Jingyang and Lord He:

"That's my brother-in-law. I'll go down and take a look."

Lord He smiled and nodded, and Yi Jingyang didn't say anything.

After You Kecun survived, he turned his back to Yi Jingyang and Lord He, glared at Master Tao fiercely, and said softly:

"Get up and go home. I have official business to attend to. If you delay my work, I will punish you."

Yu Kecun was still very scary when he got angry. Master Tao was a little scared. He got up and said silently to Xiu Luoran:

"You wait for me!"

After saying this, he parted the crowd and was about to leave. Xiu Luoran stepped in front of him:

"Pay me money! If you don't pay me money today, you can't leave here."

Master Tao didn't expect that Xiu Luoran was a dog-skin plaster that couldn't be shaken off once it stuck to him.

"You damn bitch, I'm lucky enough not to ask you to pay, but you're asking me to pay, do you want me to pay you two slaps?"

"Snapped!"

Xiu Luoran grabbed his collar and slapped him:

"I'll say it again, you can't leave without paying the money!"

Master Tao was furious and hit Xiu Luoran with his fist.

Xiu Luoran grabbed the arm that Master Tao stretched out to him and threw him over his shoulder. Master Tao fell to the ground howling again.

You Kecun's anger suddenly rose up, he stared at Xiu Luoran:

"Miss, I already know what happened between you two. It's true that he scolded you, but you also beat him. Is this the end of the matter, huh?"

He pronounced the last word "hmm" in an cadence, which was full of intimidation.

Will Xiu Luoran be afraid?

"He deserves to be beaten, but he can't scold me, he has to pay compensation! Is this the girl he can scold?

I'm in a good mood today and don't want to bother with him.

Otherwise, based on the words he used to insult me, I could make him spend the rest of his life in jail!"

Yu Kecun's many years in the officialdom were not for nothing. He asked carefully:

"Where is the young lady's house?"

Xiu Luoran rolled his eyes contemptuously:

"Then listen to me carefully, I am the legitimate daughter of the Zhenxi Marquisate and the fiancée of the Fourth Prince Yi Jingyang.

Should your brother-in-law go to jail for insulting the royal family?"

After hearing Xiu Luoran's words, You Kecun immediately turned his head to look at Yi Jingyang. There was actually someone pretending to be the Fourth Prince's fiancée right under the Fourth Prince's nose.

Seeing Yi Jingyang's indifferent look, You Kecun knew that something was wrong. His brother-in-law had hit a wall this time. This girl was really Yi Jingyang's fiancée - Xiu Luoran.

After hearing what Xiu Luoran said, You Kecun was so angry that his teeth were itching. He cursed Mr. Tao inwardly, "Why did you pick on her when you could pick on anyone else?"

But he knew that even the Fourth Prince Yi Jingyang did not dare to challenge his fiancée.

This matter must be resolved immediately. It would be disastrous if the Fourth Prince was involved. The Fourth Prince would definitely not forgive him.

"Miss Xiu, how much compensation does my brother-in-law need?"

"Thirty thousand taels!"

Master Tao jumped up and said:

"You're stealing money!"

"you shut up!"

Master Tao was scolded by You Kecun and had to shut up obediently.

You Kecun wanted to say something, but Xiu Luoran raised his hand:

"30,000 taels, if you want a penny less, we'll meet at the government office."

You Kecun looked at Yi Jingyang again, and it seemed that Yi Jingyang would not plead for his brother-in-law.

He gritted his teeth, ran to a room on the third floor, and came out soon with 30,000 taels of silver notes and handed them to Xiu Luoran.

He mortgaged two accessories and wrote an IOU to a loan shark before he got the 30,000 taels.

The gambling house was run by a powerful person in the capital, and he couldn't afford to offend him.

Xiu Luoran counted them carefully and said "Pooh" to Master Tao:

"You got a good deal. If you hadn't made trouble, I would have won hundreds of thousands of taels by now.

When gambling, you must have good manners and be willing to accept defeat.

Why do you gamble if you have no money? If you lose, you blame others and bring shame to your ancestors.

You're lucky they didn't climb out of their coffins to strangle you, hehe!"

After Xiu Luoran finished speaking, he left without looking back.

Lord He grinned: "Your Majesty, your fiancée... is very interesting! Haha."

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